Yaniv30

I think you should go for the Thrustmaster HOTAS joystick and throttle. Good for both combat and commercial airplanes it is robust, it feels good in your hands and liable. I personally have it and its great. and anyway for the NGX, upcoming T7 or the cool 747 you can use the joystick, anyway few seconds after you take off you press the LNAV/VNAV and than you just play with the FMC or the lights untill you land Have Fun, Yaniv,

There are no T7 screenshots yet and that release was anticipated to 2012 :rolleyes: . I can assume you can sit back and chilll with the 747v2 it will take a long time, if it will be untill this summer as you said I will be very surprised. Good day Yaniv Igal,

Thanks for telling, I really saw the 79.00USD and decided to pass.... 59.99 sounds good. Yaniv Igal,

Hey Hangman how are you? I disagree with you because of one main key factor which is formality. This is not a comfortable afternoon talk with high school friends. Compare it to calling your cellphone provider asking some tariff change you are entitled to, they say YES it will be changed tomorrow, suddenly you notice it was changed week after,.You would not say that in future its unlikely they will tell me some information or details or anything. The OPPOSITE, they will tell you all the information you need but they must be accurate because as a customer you expact and deserve that. So of course its not 1 to 1 in this case, but the "structure" is the same, the meaning is the same. Dont be "afraid" PMDG will not give future informtaion, they can decide not to, but they should give information, they should update their customers and fans they should do all as you expect but the only natural minimum of being accurate P.S on a more genral note, the PMDG 747 is coming to around 6 years cycle and its still amaze me, what a wonderfull aircraft. love it. Yaniv Igal

Hello Everyone, I hope you all had great holiday, enjoyed the Christmass and New Years I apologize in advance as I am not a native English speaker so I know my English is not perfect. I am frequently following the forum and other online sources regarding flight simulation as I am a big fan as all of you. Moreover, I love PMDG. I mean I really LOVE PMDG.I am the owner of the PMDG 747-400X and its just wonderfull. They produce, to my opinion, by far, the most advanced, sim relaistic, detail resolution oriented software I`ve seen in the sim arena. This is the first time I am posting here and only cause I noticed few issues lately I would like to address.These issues have nothing to to with the quality of the addons as PMDG always provide state of the art products but issues regarding managment, marketing and customer expectations BASED on declerations. On around March 2012 PMDG CEO, MR. Randazzo stood on the stage in Munich and gave a 40minutes presentation (with Q&A) about PMDG: where it was, where it is now and where it is going. Link to the presentation part 1 : . you can find part 2.3.4 as well related. (Were not uploaded by me). While Mr. Randazzo delivered the presentation, great one to my taste, I loved it, he said more than once ....the airplane is about little more than half in development and we anticipate to release it this year. (meaning 2012). PART 2, starting from 11:15min . But you really should see it all, its very interesting presentation. Now, lets hold on for a second. From a business point of view and from credability point of view when a CEO of a company stands on the stage and declare anticipating a product for that same year what it really means, in today`s norma and business standards, is that the product will be released this year. Imagine to yourself Steve Jobs (RIP) stands on the stage in San Fransico declaring ".....and we are anticiapting the new iPhone to be released this year" you have a doubt the product will not be released??, that it will be "dragged" to the next year? be sure the answer is no way. and why? only because that when a CEO says words they have heavy weight, they have impact, they have meaning. Again, this is not about the quality, we all agree PMDG are the best there is to my modest opinion only. In addition, I read many posts of what I assume are teenagers asking about why some versions of products released in the next couple of months after the base package was released. Well of course there are the elements of the time, finishing the job, adjusting what needs to be adjusted and all, BUT dont forget this is a basic business economic model to allegedly expand revenue which is natural and understood from a private company who`s basic existing right is to earn. (So, put it in proportions). Another point I was thinking to myself is why Mr. Randazzo in one of the posts saying something like that one of the employees, VIn I suppose, works only 2 hours in a each day in a week once of the other month? what is the point? if you state it will be delyaed so we will all wait in patient, if you are under staffed so solve it and fullfill your own words (from the Munich Presentation) by getting additional staff. I didnt get that point and I am sorry if I misuderstood it correctly and it was a joke by Mr.Randazzo. I do hope it was a joke, cause its sure sounded as one. (dont forget we are talking about business and companies which have standards as being such). If the whole matter should be considered and addressed as an amatuer, unprofessional, flexible thing so its all ok. Words can have less weight on that. But if we "judge" things from a formal business standards I find myself minding the gap like travelling on the London`s tube due to having such a gap. I was wondering about those issues and the things derived from them. I want to emphasis, this is not soft of complaint (as I assume some will say what and why are you comapining about). so again, it is not a complaint. I would love to buy from my hard working money PMDG products as they worth every cent of it. I can also wait to the release whenever it will be, please remember its a software after all. the whole post wasnt about release date at all it was about the weight of words and their meaning as titled above. I wish all of us happy new year with health, happiness and dreams coming true.. and keep on flying Yaniv Igal,